Frank Byron Jevons: 5 books

2 works of Frank Byron Jevons Polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University (1858-1936) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Frank Byron Jevons. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The Idea of God in Early Religions

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION IMMORTALITY MAGIC FETICHISM PRAYER SACRIFICE MORALITY CHRISTIANITY APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX About the Author "FRANK BYRON JEVONS (1858–1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University." -- Wikipedia

The Hartford-Lamson Lectures on The Religions of the World are delivered at Hartford Theological Seminary in connection with the Lamson Fund, which was established by a group of friends in honor of the late Charles M.Lamson, D.D., sometime President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...

This 1916 work on “the science of religion” covers the evolution of religion from an objective point of view, and is concerned with factual history, not with what “ought to” have occurred. The author concerns himself with the value of different religions in comparison with one another. Topics include immortality, magic, fetishism, prayer, sacrifice, morality, and Christianity.

In this 1902 book for students on the early history of religion, the eminent Victorian scholar presents discussions of the supernatural, sympathetic magic, life and death, totem and taboo, animal sacrifice, fetishism, mythology, priesthood, the afterlife, monotheism, the evolution of belief, and more—with...